Chief of Staff

About the role

You'll own one of Buena's next revenue verticals from zero. Property management is the entry point, but every unit managed opens the door to adjacent businesses—brokerage, energy services, insurance, financing. You'll pick one vertical and build it into a real business, owning the P&L, strategy, partnerships, and product.

What you'll do

• Own the P&L for your vertical. Revenue, margin, payback.
• Drive the product. Define what needs to exist for your vertical to work, write the spec, work directly with PMs and engineers, and ship it.
• Roll out across all portcos. Design the rollout, measure it, and ship the playbook so it works the same way in every portco.

What you'll need

• You've started something before—a company you founded, a product you built and sold, or a freelance business you scaled.
• You think commercially first. Unit economics, margin, payback, deal structure.
• You act fast. Reversible decisions don't get a second meeting.
• You can sell. You've personally closed deals, signed partners, or convinced people to give you money.
• Native-level German. Most partners, regulators, and customers operate in German, sometimes with heavy accent. Hard requirement.
• You work from our office in Prenzlauer Berg. This is not a remote role. Hard requirement.

Nice to have

• The instinct of "this is mine, I'll figure it out."
• You won't need to be a brokerage or banking expert on day one—you'll be one in 60 days through outresearch and outthinking.

What they offer

• Up to €500 close-to-office bonus if you live within 10-20 mins walking distance to the office.
• €110/month lunch budget, €50 fitness subsidy.
• €1,200 yearly education budget.
• Free books: Buena pays for any book you'd like to read.